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S F T P ?

While looking at potential new web hosts, I caught a notice from one of them that it will no longer permit FTP access, only SFTP (Secure FTP).

Fetch (Mac FTP software) cannot do it, but I downloaded Fugu, a free program that can, from the University of Michigan (which wrote and maintains it). A similar tool for Windows seems to be Filezilla (from SourceForge.net).

What I am curious about is can one always use SFTP? Or must the host enable it? And how common and serious are security problems with good old FTP?